As a boy Mike took guitar lessons on a miniature classical guitar and his favourite song to play was the theme song for Hawaii-50. He would also love to draw. Mike's dad, who is an architect would bring home giant drafting paper and he would make giant posters and hang them up all around the house. When he was 12 years old he had a job as a puppeteer for Suzanne Pinel (Marie Soleil), a well know French Children’s performer!